Farmingdale State College

The 2025-26 academic year marks Rich Hume's 11th season with the Farmingdale State men's and women's tennis teams, having started as an assistant coach in Fall 2015 before being named associate head coach in September 2021. 

A 2023 inductee to the Farmingdale State Athletics Hall of Fame, Hume started at the College in 1982 in the Division of Administration & Finance in the Student Accounts Office, before serving as FSC's Controller before his retirement in 2015. Hume has always had a strong connection to the Athletics Department, as he was an assistant women's basketball coach from 1991 through 2000, and served as the chair of the College's Intercollegiate Athletics Board (IAB) from 2002 through his retirement from the Controller position. In addition to his coaching duties, Hume still serves on the Rams' IAB.

Hume comes from a tennis family, and has had a storied background in the sport, including serving as President of the Tennis Association of Farmingdale (a USTA community service organization) since 2015.  He also participates in USTA team tennis, and has been a member of several teams that have competed at the National Championships for the USTA. In a show of Hume's vast contributions to tennis in the area, he was the 2022 recipient of the United States Tennis Association (USTA) Long Island Region's prestigious Hy Zausner Lifetime Achievement Award. The annual award is named in memory of the founder of the Port Washington Tennis Academy -- a facility that saw players such as John McEnroe and Vitas Gerulaitis pass through its doors.

Hume is a 1978 graduate of Brooklyn College, where he received his bachelor’s degree in accounting, before earning a M.B.A. degree from New York Institute of Technology in 1994. He resides in Lindenhurst with his wife, Janet. Hume is the father of Michael and Jessica, and is also the proud grandfather of two granddaughters, Josephine and Coraline.